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Actuality and the Hidden Horizon: Today is Rational
Language philosopher Bry Willis critiques Meghan Sullivan’s theory of temporal neutrality, which argues that we should treat our future selves with the same importance as our current selves. While acknowledging that impulsive short-sightedness is often irrational, the author contends that prioritising the present is frequently a logical response to the inherent uncertainty of life. This perspective, termed actuality-weighting, suggests that the present self has a stronger claim to resources because its existence is certain, whereas the future self is merely a conditional possibility. Because…
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